SURGICAL UNIT FOR REGIMENT

At a meeting held yesterday afternoon at the Medical School over one hundred medical students enrolled for the unit which is being organized there to drill with the Harvard Regiment.

The idea of this unit originated at the Medical School, and is backed by Captain Cordier and Major General Wood. Major Hall, U.S.A., retired, is to take charge of the division after its organization, but until that time the men will be under the supervision of Captain Cordier.

The work for the unit will consist of drill to be held in the Baseball Cage on Thursday evenings at 8.30 o'clock until outdoor work is feasible. A course of lectures will also be given on Friday afternoons, attendance at which will be required of all who enroll. Two unexcused lecture cuts will result in dismissal from the unit. Recruiting, field and camp sanitation, medical administration, sanitary tactics and first aid, and discipline will be among the subjects treated. A course of lectures is also planned to be given during July. Other branches of work will be taken up after October 1. The understanding at present is that, should this division prove a success, an ambulance corps may be started. All men who join the unit will be required to attend some summer military camp, and provisions are now being made for a sanitary division at Plattsburg this summer.

The immense need for more army surgeons was pointed out by Dr. Warren. "In the present war," he stated, "it has been shown that seven doctors are required for every 1,000 men. Our new preparedness program calls for an army of 1,000,000 men. To suitably care for such a force 7,000 doctors would be needed, and yet the United States army has only 500."